Exploring Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management
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Summary of Exploring Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management
Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management (SEM) enhances Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) by providing a de-duplicated catalog of remediation actions. Each remediation action (Fix record) is linked to the vulnerabilities it resolves and scored based on the risk it mitigates. This approach allows vulnerability teams to remediate by fix instead of individually addressing each finding, improving efficiency and prioritization.
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Key Features
- De-duplicated Fix Catalog: Stores each remediation action once, regardless of how many detections or scanners report it. Fix records include remediation categories, affected software, and aggregated risk scores.
- Finding and Asset Linkage: Each fix is linked to the vulnerable items it resolves, and findings reference their associated fix, enabling clear traceability.
- Per-Fix Risk Rollup: Calculates a risk score based on active findings sharing the fix and tracks counts of findings and distinct affected assets to help size remediation impact.
- Automated Integration with Armis Centrix™ for ViPR: USEM exports detection data to Armis Centrix™ for Vulnerability Prioritization and Remediation (ViPR) and retrieves updated fixes on a scheduled basis, eliminating manual imports.
- Workspace and Dashboard Visibility: Fixes are accessible via lists and forms in the USEM Workspace and displayed as widgets on the Findings and Remediation Views for real-time visibility.
- Supported Integrations: Identifies fixes for host vulnerabilities ingested from Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable.io, Wiz, and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management.
Who Uses Fix Intelligence for SEM
- Vulnerability Analysts: Prioritize and act on fixes that resolve the most findings and highest risks first.
- Vulnerability Managers: View asset coverage by fix and coordinate remediation efforts across teams.
- Remediation Owners: Access fix lists and related findings assigned to them for efficient remediation.
Benefits
- Remediate by Fix, Not by Finding: One fix can address multiple findings across various assets, reducing duplicated effort.
- Prioritize by Risk Removed: Risk rollups highlight fixes that eliminate the highest exposure.
- Stay Current Automatically: Scheduled data exchanges keep the fix catalog synchronized with Armis Centrix™ for ViPR without manual intervention.
Practical Application
By installing and enabling Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management, your security and vulnerability teams can streamline remediation workflows, focus on high-impact fixes, and maintain up-to-date fix information automatically. This improves your organization's ability to reduce security exposure efficiently and coordinate remediation efforts across multiple assets and scanners.
Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management enriches USEM with a de-duplicated catalog of remediation actions, each linked to the findings and assets it resolves and scored by the risk it removes.
Vulnerability teams often work finding by finding, even when a single patch or configuration change resolves many findings across many assets. Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management identifies fix information for your detections and turns it into Fix records. These records group findings under the action that resolves them, so you can plan and prioritize remediation by fix.
Vulnerability detections that USEM ingests from your scanners are processed by Armis Centrix™ for Vulnerability Prioritization and Remediation (ViPR), which identifies and normalizes a fix for each detection. Because fixes are normalized and de-duplicated, a single Fix record can represent the same remediation action across many detections, assets, and scanners.
Supported integrations
In this release, Fix Intelligence for SEM identifies fixes for host vulnerabilities (host vulnerable items) ingested from the following integrations:
- Qualys
- Rapid7
- Tenable.io
- Wiz
- Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
Features
- De-duplicated fix catalog
- Each remediation action is stored once as a Fix record, no matter how many detections or scanners report it, with its remediation category (for example, Patch Update, OS Update, or Configuration Change), affected software, and a rolled-up risk score.
- Finding and asset linkage
- Every fix is linked to the vulnerable items it resolves, and each finding carries a read-only reference back to its fix.
- Per-fix risk rollup
- A rollup calculator scores each fix from the active findings that share it, and maintains a findings count and a distinct-assets count so you can size the impact of applying the fix.
- Automated exchange with Armis Centrix™ for ViPR
- USEM exports detection data to Armis Centrix™ for ViPR and retrieves the identified fixes on a schedule, keeping the catalog current without manual imports.
- Workspace and dashboard visibility
- Fixes appear as a list and form in Unified Security Exposure Management Workspace, and as widgets on the Findings View and the Remediation View — for example, Findings with fix identified and Top fixes by finding count.
Who uses Fix Intelligence for SEM
| User | Goal |
|---|---|
| Vulnerability analyst | Find the fixes that resolve the most findings and highest risk, then act on them first. |
| Vulnerability manager | See which assets a fix covers, and coordinate the patch or configuration change across the assigned remediation teams. |
| Remediation Owner | Navigate to the fix list and see other findings if they are assigned to them. |
Benefits
- Remediate by fix, not by finding: One fix can clear many findings across many assets, reducing repetitive work.
- Prioritize by risk removed: The per-fix risk rollup surfaces the fixes that reduce the most exposure.
- Stay current automatically: Scheduled exchanges keep the fix catalog aligned with Armis Centrix™ for ViPR.